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April 23, 2015

Matera: A Cave with a View

In this April 27, 2015 New Yorker article, D. T. Max tells the story of the rise and fall and rise again of the Sassi area of Matera, a town in southern Italy which has been occupied since prehistoric times. "The main section, the Civita, contains grand churches and picturesque palazzi; it is flanked on both sides by the Sassi, or the Rocks—steeply graded districts where mostly peasants lived."